📊 Why Service Providers Waste Over 70% Of Internet Leads

What Not To Do With New Leads

In alot of companies sales and marketing efforts don’t align. You ask the marketing team, yes we are getting tons of leads and traffic. You ask the sales team, they have a very different picture of this whole situation. Harvard Business Review, 71% of qualified leads are never followed up with. What’s more is, of the leads that are followed up on, they’re only touched an average of 1.3 times. What is the biggest problem you might be asking?

Companies don’t respond fast enough to leads. In fact, they take 46 hours and 53 minutes to pick up the phone and respond to a lead.

This can be changed!! Increase from 27% to 92% is an increase of 341% lift in results just by responding immediately and persistently to online leads. We worked with one of our clients and here are the results they got…By moving their average response time from 6 days to 1 day, their close rates went from 3.2% to 7.5%.

Here is another interesting data which will surprise you. It’s like every additional minute is costing you money….

After 20 hours every additional dial you or your salespeople make actually hurts your ability to make contact to qualify a lead.”

“The odds of contacting a lead if called in 5 minutes are 100 times higher versus 30 minutes.

The odds of qualifying a lead if called in 5 minutes are 21 times higher versus 30 minutes.”

Why response time matters?

We know where they are. We called it “presence detection.”

We are still on their minds. This is “top-of-mind-awareness.”

The “Wow Effect. Immediately surprising them

Solution??

CRM…CRM…CRM

It’s like you are heading to Florida for a drive without GPS. Make sure to start using a free CRM solution to start with

Timing of Response

For a lead generated online, waiting just five minutes will reduce the likelihood of contact by 10x factor. Responding to Leads Within an Hour Generates 7x the Conversations Hubspot

Frequency of Response

When developing your lead response process, you want to address not only the time that a qualified lead should be responded to, but the frequency as well.

The Importance of Nurturing

As a part of your lead management process, you’re going to want to designate whether a lead is being actively or passively managed. Lead should get retargeting ads or emails from you to help you stay on top of their mind.

Automate Tailored Responses

An auto-responder can be a good back-up when an immediate personal response isn’t possible, but only if it’s not a canned response. Make sure your auto-responders are personalized and reflective of the experience your customer has had up to this point.

Be prepared

Have a plan before you go ahead and make contact with a lead. Do your research. Plan what the next steps will be that you push for, as you always need to be aiming to move things on in some way. Also, make sure teams have access to marketing materials, such as case studies, fact sheets and specification packs – whatever may be helpful for them

Apply This 10 Step Lead Conversion & Management Process For Service Providers:

Ali Salman is an online marketing strategist who have worked with Coca-Cola, Extreme Pita, Mucho Burrito, KIA, Honda and other Fortune 500 companies. Ali Salman now heads Rapid Boost Marketing – Canada’s fastest growing search marketing agency. RBM clients include Fortune 500’s and medium size businesses across North America. Ali as RBM CMO leads his team in building and managing quality, high-performing and cost-effective interactive campaigns and programs for our company’s customers and partners. In his career, he has significantly improved campaign performance for large brands such as Government of Alberta, Liberal Party, Workopolis, Cathay Pacific, as well as medium to large retailers and high-tech B2B-enterprise niches.
Ali and his team develop online promotional concepts that spark viral growth through search and social media for RBM clients, devising strategies that use search engines and more to reach key demographic segments in the ways they’re most likely to be receptive. Ali Salman also oversees corporate marketing initiatives for Rapid Boost Marketing, including strategic communications counsel, public and analyst relations and client education programming.

Ali Salman is an online marketing strategist who have worked with Coca-Cola, Extreme Pita, Mucho Burrito, KIA, Honda and other Fortune 500 companies. Ali Salman now heads Rapid Boost Marketing - Canada's fastest growing search marketing agency. RBM clients include Fortune 500's and medium size businesses across North America. Ali as RBM CMO leads his team in building and managing quality, high-performing and cost-effective interactive campaigns and programs for our company's customers and partners. In his career, he has significantly improved campaign performance for large brands such as Government of Alberta, Liberal Party, Workopolis, Cathay Pacific, as well as medium to large retailers and high-tech B2B-enterprise niches.
Ali and his team develop online promotional concepts that spark viral growth through search and social media for RBM clients, devising strategies that use search engines and more to reach key demographic segments in the ways they're most likely to be receptive. Ali Salman also oversees corporate marketing initiatives for Rapid Boost Marketing, including strategic communications counsel, public and analyst relations and client education programming.

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